{"id":808,"date":"2009-12-15T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:43:59","slug":"happy-holidays-with-continuous-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/happy-holidays-with-continuous-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays with Continuous Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than thirty years I&#8217;ve been mailing collaged, holiday cards at the end of the year. I would take a postcard and cover it with various stickers or other pictures or text found in magazines and add a catchy phrase linking it to the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>About twenty years ago, these cards took on a GertrudeandAlice twist. The Ladies from rue de Fleurus became the focus of the cards and the annual greeting, with its usual irreverent humor, \u00a0seems to have become something that friends looked forward to receiving each December. \u00a0(Some of my friends have told me that they&#8217;ve kept all of the cards over the years, ready for a retrospective exhibition!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_817\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-817\" title=\"GSABTSilou\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/GSABTSilou1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Card of Holidays Past 2003\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Card of Holidays Past 2003<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_819\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-819\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-819\" title=\"GSATXmascard04\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/GSATXmascard04-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Card of Holidays Past 2004\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Card of Holidays Past 2004<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year for the first time, the card is being sent electronically via this blog. The decision to do this was purely one of necessity \u00a0as I am in Australia and was unable to get cards designed, printed, written and mailed before I left.<\/p>\n<p>The collaged picture that I&#8217;m using this year was used four years ago, but the imagined dialogue between GertrudeandAlice playing off of Gertrude&#8217;s explanation of her writing with the term &#8220;continuous present,&#8221; is purely card 2009\/10.<\/p>\n<p>And here it is:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_831\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-831\" class=\"size-large wp-image-831\" title=\"GSABTCard NEW2 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/GSABTCard-NEW2-copy-585x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Card of Holiday Present(s) 2009\" width=\"470\" height=\"822\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Card of Holiday Present(s) 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Where is my gift?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gertrude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You don\u2019t remember gifting?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>No.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gertrude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When this you see remember me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>No, no.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gertrude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh, oh, oh a gift being given. Much gifting being given.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gertrude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And for you. The gifting to you is continuous presents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gertrude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Yes. Happy Holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh yes, Happy Holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wishing all of you the happiest of holidays and the continuous presents of health and joy in the New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Hans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than thirty years I&#8217;ve been mailing collaged, holiday cards at the end of the year. I would take a postcard and cover it with various stickers or other pictures or text found in magazines and add a catchy phrase linking it to the holidays. 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